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by sph 5mo ago
It is for me. I come here to read how fucked we are in the age of AI. It's compulsive.
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by sph 5mo ago
Wikipedia no longer calls it a 'conspiracy theory'. I guess it's confirmed then.
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by sph 5mo ago
All true, but you know what do we have to blame for most of that? The Internet and social media. It did in a few years was mass media had been working toward for the better part of a century.
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by sph 5mo ago
Educating people in the social media age? Good luck with that.
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by sph 5mo ago
> But I still write my code myself. Not for long, if you so easily have caved in to using AI elsewhere. People are lazy. If you see that the 'results are nice', it's game over for your programming/thinking. Waiting fo
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by sph 5mo ago
More evidence of the philosophical concept of 'technology is a life form.' Humans would be the perfect host, at least for the time being. They are certainly a willing host.
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by sph 5mo ago
Thanks for the pointer, never heard of this!
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by sph 5mo ago
I know this is blasphemy to the average HN reader, but as a professional Elixir developer for 10 years, never have I felt the need for stronger compile-time type guarantees. None of my production services have had downtime or crashes becaus
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by sph 5mo ago
Not sure what you mean here. Changesets are used to validate user input before interaction with business logic or your database; of course data validation has a runtime cost, in any language. Please don't use changesets to enforce some
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by sph 5mo ago
It's not like you're dealing with hundreds of thousands of ad-hoc processes. If you're writing a web server, for example, each of these processes might simply be a client connection and they all operate the same. The fact tha
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by sph 5mo ago
I'm working on a game engine right now (written in object oriented language, of course) and I keep itching to design a compiled functional language for games, because state spread in thousand of objects, eldritch class hierarchies, are
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by sph 5mo ago
I’d actually respect recruiters doing this more than just piping their inbox to /dev/null
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by sph 5mo ago
> Nobody wants to hear "no" Nonsense. The client that made me a job offer as CTO listed the fact that I wasn’t afraid of saying ‘no’ to unreasonable requests or unrealistic deadlines one of the things he valued the most in my w
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by sph 5mo ago
One of the most stressful times in my life was my first job at 19 where my boss would sell the moon to clients, then I had to find a way to deliver. On time. Fuck that nonsense.
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by sph 5mo ago
Training a spam filter works both ways. Mark them as ‘not spam’ until it stops happening. I never got a legit email end up in my Spam folder, so YMMV.
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by sph 5mo ago
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380983
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by sph 5mo ago
It's not. I wrote about this a couple times. Here's how it works: the personal spam filter kicks in after having trained on ~100-200 spam emails. You need to mark them as spam (you might want to use a filter initially if they all
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by sph 5mo ago
True, but so is financial advice on the Internet. There is no answer to 'what should I do with my money today', and anyone that claims to have one either is stupid, lying or trying to scam you. The only valid advice here is to be
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by sph 5mo ago
I want to believe that you got downvoted by the Oracle employees making 600k a year, rather than by people that couldn't tell you were being sarcastic.
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by sph 5mo ago
Congrats to those among us building this dystopia. It's not Larry Ellison coding these systems.
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by sph 5mo ago
There are three languages worth learning that expand your mind: Lisp, Forth and Tcl. Despite all exhibiting homoiconicity, they couldn't be more different from one another. (I'd include Rebol but it's as mind-blowing as it&#x
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by sph 5mo ago
Nowhere in history we had products as addictive as those. There are people making a career studying how to exploit people's weaknesses, to induce them to buy products.
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by sph 5mo ago
Bots are rampant more than ever. I got my own share of spam asking me for a job. I used to have in my profile "contact me at $USERNAME@example.com" and I started getting emails from AI companies selling their slop, to address us
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by sph 5mo ago
There wasn't TikTok and Doordash at the time. Panem et circenses.
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by sph 5mo ago
You are correct but > It's mostly greed that prevents it Greed is a human axiom. Anything that depends on humans not being greedy isn't worth the paper it's printed on. That's why capitalism won, despite its many faul
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by sph 5mo ago
"Be fearful when others are greedy". Greed is at an all-time high, so be careful. Whether that means buying or selling or staying put is for you to decide.
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by sph 5mo ago
Sci-fi tropes are not black and white. It's a spectrum from what exists today to the impossible. 20 years ago many would have claimed being able to have a machine generate decent code from a sentence is science fiction. When talking ab
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by sph 5mo ago
This comment is like that 'no take, only throw' meme. I want free software. Don't ask for donations, just give me free software.
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by sph 5mo ago
We don't have "Skynet, Dune automation, Terminators, Neuromancer, and every other cultural trope using the label of AI" today simply because LLM technology doesn't seem to directly lead to those, but the end goal of AI r
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by sph 5mo ago
> We aren't enslaved The people complaining about becoming stupider because of their AI usage might have something to say. Those that wish they didn't have to use AI but are coerced by their workplace might disagree. What of th

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